ISR & Reconnaissance

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has introduced their new family of unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and precision lethal strike systems. Red Cat’s family of ISR and precision strike drones will provide the industry with an alternative to conventional ...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 contracts to Blue Origin, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA). The base Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) award includes Firm Fixed Price (FFP) ...

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the planned acquisition of FlightWave Aerospace Systems Corporation (“FlightWave”) — Edge 130, FlightWave’s Blue UAS approved, military-grade tricopter would, upon closing, be added to Red Cat’s line of ...

Screenshot Hughes Europe, a subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has announced the company's strategic expansion into the Military, Defence, and Government sectors across pan-European nations — Troy Truman has joined Hughes and will act ...

RapidFlight has been awarded a contract valued up to $10 million by the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) AFWERX Autonomy Prime program to develop and produce a customizable, autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft system, the SPX. The DAF created ...

Screenshot General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that the Army National Guard (ARNG) has ordered 12 Gray Eagle 25M (GE 25M) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) paid for as part of 2023 congressional funding. The funding comes after ARNG ...

200-HP Heavy Fuel Engine Will Be Used for New Gray Eagle 25M General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed durability testing for the company's new, 200-horsepower, heavy fuel engine at the El Mirage, California, flight facility. The Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) was awarded a $94,808,020 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research, development, test, and evaluation of Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Smart Sensor Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) prototype. The work was awarded by the Army Contracting Command on April ...

SpaceX is now targeting Wednesday, May 22 for a Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-146 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff is aimed for 1:00 a.m. PT, with backup opportunities ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to develop a new Airborne Battlespace Awareness and Defense (ABAD) capability. (Pictured: GA-ASI MQ-9A UAS, courtesy of the company.) The new ABAD pod is being ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) teamed up to conduct flight training on the operation of the MQ-9A Block 5 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) ...

Blue Sky Network has announced that the company's SkyLink 7100 solution will help enable critical Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) capabilities to American Aerospace Inc.’s (AATI) uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) which is now being used by Chevron Pipe Line Company.  Blue ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to develop a new Airborne Battlespace Awareness and Defense (ABAD) capability. The new ABAD pod is being developed for the GA-ASI-supplied MQ-9A Block 5 Medium-Altitude, ...

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has formed the Red Cat Futures Initiative (RFI), an independent, industry-wide consortium of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) partners dedicated to putting the most advanced and interoperable uncrewed aircraft systems into the hands of warfighters. Anchored by ...

AeroVironment’s (AV) Switchblade 600 loitering munition system has been selected for Tranche 1 of the first iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Replicator initiative. AV’s Switchblade 600 is a man-portable, extended-range, loitering munition system equipped with an anti-armor ...

ParaZero Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: PRZO) is integrating their advanced safety technology into Draganfly’s Commander 3XL drones — this enhancement is set to significantly boost the safety and reliability of UAVs in crucial applications and emergency operations. By incorporating ParaZero’s state-of-the-art ...

Descartes Labs and its subsidiary, Descartes Labs Government, has selected EarthDaily Analytics as a supplier for their EO data to power their geospatial analytics and AI solutions.  EarthDaily’s Constellation will unlock a continuous stream of scientific-quality and analytics-ready data providing an ...

A Boeing F/A-18 systems pilot demonstrates the Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) capability from his simulator cockpit. The Boeing-led team virtually demonstrated an F/A-18 pilot commanding an unmanned MQ-25 to release a refueling drogue and refuel the Super Hornet, using existing communications ...

QinetiQ has successfully trialed the UK’s first Crewed-Uncrewed-Teaming demonstration between a crewed aircraft and an autonomous jet drone.  The trial – which took place in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the Royal Navy and the Air ...

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has successfully passed electronic warfare (EW) testing in Ukraine with Doodle Labs. The successful test is part of a continuous innovation cycle that began in May of 2023 with a partnership between the companies for the ...